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The Signing of the Wedding Contract (Le Mariage à la ville, Plate 1)
French
1633
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 33.6 × 42.5 cm (13 1/4 × 16 3/4 in.)
Platemark: 26.5 × 33.3 cm (10 7/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
Platemark: 26.5 × 33.3 cm (10 7/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
Accession Number44.965
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Blum 0116, only state; Duplessis 1374, only state; IFF 1374; Le Blanc 772
DescriptionGroup indoors - older men and women around table, lovers, children playing. "C'est une maxime ou se fonde/La plus part..."
Bound in Bosse book, Oeuvre Gravé.
Bound in Bosse book, Oeuvre Gravé.
Marks
Verso, lower left, stamped in yellow-brown ink, the mark of the MFA Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
ProvenanceJohn Evelyn (b. 1620-d. 1706), London. Elizabeth Day McCormick (b. 1873-d. 1957), Chicago; 1944, her gift to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 8, 1996)